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Money at Work - On the Job with Priests, Poker Players and Hedge Fund Traders (Hardcover)
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Money at Work - On the Job with Priests, Poker Players and Hedge Fund Traders (Hardcover)
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Financial advisors, poker players, hedge fund traders,
fund-raisers, sports agents, credit counselors and commissioned
salespeople all deal with one central concern in their jobs: money.
In Money at Work, Kevin Delaney explores how we think about money
and, particularly, how our jobs influence that thinking. By
spotlighting people for whom money is the focus of their work,
Delaney illuminates how the daily practices experienced in
different jobs create distinct ways of thinking and talking about
money and how occupations and their work cultures carry important
symbolic, material, and practical messages about money. Delaney
takes us deep inside the cultures of these 'moneyed' workers, using
both interviews and first-hand observations of many of these
occupations. From hedge fund trading rooms in New York, to poker
players at work in Las Vegas casinos, to a "Christian money
retreat" in a monastery in rural Pennsylvania, Delaney illustrates
how the underlying economic conditions of various occupations and
careers produce what he calls "money cultures," or ways of
understanding the meaning of money, which in turn shape one's
economic outlook. Key to this is how some professionals, such as
debt counselors, think very differently than say poker players in
their regard to money-Delaney argues that it is the structure of
these professions themselves that in turn influences monetary
attitudes. Fundamentally, Money at Work shows that what people do
for a living has a profound effect on how people conceive of money
both at work and in their home lives, making clear the connections
between the economic and the social, shedding light on some of our
most basic values. At a time when conversations about money are
increasingly important, Delaney shows that we do not merely learn
our attitudes toward money in childhood, but we also learn
important money lessons from the work that we do.
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